This paper evaluates the effects of a fall in payroll taxes on employment and wages in the presence of high labor … formality. The model suggests that the reform would increase total employment by between 0.3 to 0.5 percent and formal … employment by between 3.4 to 3.7 percent over the pre-reform scenario. In addition, formal wage rates would increase by 4 …

focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable … employment - possibly due to a decline in reservation wages. Accordingly, wages decline, hours of work increase, and job search …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …

extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …

We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United …. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six … weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to …

-economy business cycles tend to be shallower in advanced economies than in EMDEs. Informal employment in both advanced economies and …